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Last autumn I planned out my back garden and today I have started to see the fruits of my labours. Well my grandson’s actually.

Right in the centre there are some 40 daffodils in a tight circle surrounded by bunches of 5 different coloured crocuses and these are surrounded by a ring of some 200 snow drops.

Sadly only about 50 snowdrops poked their heads up so that sort of ruined the display a bit.

Over in the back right hand corner my personal bluebell wood is showing signs of life with a bunch of foreign bluebells at the apex of a triangle and over 100 bluebells filling up the remainder.

Alongside the back fence my grandson transplanted some orange flowers from the front and these too are showing signs of life.

The idea is that in about a month or so I will sow some red poppy seeds to form a “V” around the central display to make my own Remembrance Garden.

Alongside the fence on the left the Foxgloves have survived but I don’t think that the Hollyhocks and Lupins have managed to. But you never know there may be something underground just waiting for the warmer weather. I’ll have to re-sow them in April if not.

The rest of the garden will be sown with meadow flowers come April and the perimeter will sport things like the yellow poppy and antirrhinums.

Hopefully it will become birds and bees paradise. Now if only I could get “Stumpy” to sit still for a second.

Who’s “Stumpy”?

He or she is a squirrel with the left front leg either missing or not fully grown. It doesn’t stop it from scrambling up and down the face of the fences and trees though.

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Remembrance? What you remembering? Nagasaki? They look terrible.

Wonderful garden? Ive seen better dandelion's by the side of the tip pal. Its pathetic lol

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:uzi::jam1::bingobang

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Ours does`nt grow very much at the moment ......its got a 12ft trampoline shoved in the middle of my beautiful lawn!!!!:eek:

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Our's is like a jungle!
There are 3 big conifer trees,lot's of weeds and even more rubbish!
We try and keep it tidy but the next day it's a tip again!
I'm not much of a gardener though,could never see the point personally!

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You can be a B**tard at times Alexs ... :hitting8:

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Leave the lad alone ,

:alright: :alright:

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Aleks challenges Katex to honestly say she didn't laugh at it............

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cant wait to see what jambutty say about it:rolleyes:..................:eek:

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No, I didn't laugh actually. If he had been my son, would have grounded him for a week.

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hmm...... theres an idea ;)

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Mines full of weeds - you want to send your grandson round here jambutty?


sidenote I agree with katex about aleks

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it was a bit below the belt wasnt it?.:o

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lol hasnt stopped his karma going up though

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emmmm i wonder who gave him that...:rolleyes:

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Right in the centre there are some 40 daffodils in a tight circle surrounded by bunches of 5 different coloured crocuses and these are surrounded by a ring of some 200 snow drops.

thats quite alot of bulbs to grow in such a small space..

Sadly only about 50 snowdrops poked their heads up so that sort of ruined the display a bit.

could be because they were planted too close together?


Over in the back right hand corner my personal bluebell wood is showing signs of life with a bunch of foreign bluebells at the apex of a triangle and over 100 bluebells filling up the remainder.

I hope you dont live near the countryside or near public parks as its not advised to plant foreign bluebells in the uk cos they are a more vigorous plant than our english one which is slowly dying out due to the foreign being more aggresive and more of a hybrid..



Alongside the fence on the left the Foxgloves have survived but I don’t think that the Hollyhocks and Lupins have managed to. But you never know there may be something underground just waiting for the warmer weather. I’ll have to re-sow them in April if not.

your hollyhocks may have gotten rust? thus bumping them off...or your soil wasnt quite correct..

The rest of the garden will be sown with meadow flowers come April and the perimeter will sport things like the yellow poppy and antirrhinums.

snapdragons are ace and you cant have enough of them in a garden..

I will try and dig out some snaps of my back yard..

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some pics of my back yard...

every single bit of that yard re-done - it was a challenge for me to see what i could do with a square empty yard..
so I took up all the old flags (was fed up having them pinched, completely dug out by me, laid an 8 inch base for my new flags - which was done by me, all borders built up, filled, planted and maintained by me...took me 2 weeks in the sun and rain which is why it may look slightly rough but all done and I love it..
those pics were taken last year - regardless of what the date says:rolleyes:..
I would love a big garden like jambuttys, I have too many ideas in my head when it comes to gardening, and after doing mine I still think about taking some bits up and changing them...
I reckon I could give any small gardening firm a run for their money if I were to go down that road.. I have customers,the contacts and the experience...but they dont need to worry just yet...one day though..;)


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Glasgow you want to come and practice on mine? I've got 2 big gardens you can practice on.

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I think Jambutty's garden shows a lot of promise. It can take quite some time to get things the way you want them, especially if you have to rely on someone else for the heavy labour. He did say, after all, that there are other things to be planted. As a keen gardener myself I'd be preparing the grassy bit for reseeding next month to really show off the flowers.

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Not exactly kensington gardens though is it

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So wheres your garden aleks?

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I dont have a garden i shave love.

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Dont ever call me love.

If you dont have a garden why say something like that about Jambutty's.

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really, didn't look like it in that picture of the little weed you sent me.

JB your garden is lovely, I agree with Glasgow guy about planting the bulbs a bit too close together, so the roots are going to all be fighting for the moisture, which judging by the look of the earth, is not plentiful.

I think it's promising though, so I hope you'll get the rest planted and we can see more pictures :) our garden is rubbish compared to yours :D

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I'll bet the Digger could give you a good haircut and get rid of that stubble in quick time.

When was the last time you tried to grow anything apart from that poor excuse for a beard?:behead:

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This was my 1st real attempt at gardening last year
Had soooo many weeds to dig out after we moved in, didn't do it right tho cos they have now grown all over my nice flowers:( (the big pink 1 was my fav flower:D)
Will try again this year:D

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I have to have a garden to have an opinion on someone elses?

If thats the case you cant comment on peoples sense of humour.

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At least i have one wheres yours?

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Thats not me you numpty

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as a keen gardener myself I would buy a rake first and clear up the leaves etc which wont be doing any good to his balding lawn then some new/more grass seed..
and its unusual how his lawn becomes his flower beds...or is that his beds that become his lawn?

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very nice accylass but water your lawn more !!!!!:D;)

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Are you talking about a moustache?

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We have enough rain for that:D
Just obviously not in the bits where ya see brown patches on the grass:p

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Hi Jambutty.

Never mind the critics, you should have seen our garden when we got it, we filled three 6 ton skips with rubbish before we could even start to grow any thing.

Just dig in plenty of compost in the flower beds before planting.
Poppies be careful they are very invasive and can soon take over.
Snow drops can be critical as to the depth they are planted.

Just remember plants like human beings require food. We have 3 big compost bins going full time.

Retlaw

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Thought not - He looks too intelligent :tongueout

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What would i want with a moustache?

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what a complete waste of a great greenhouse !
all your own fruit and veg on tap, along with cuttings and flowers grown from seed or total clutter - I know what I would rather have...

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I laughed till i cried at all the answers on here.

Aleks leave Jen alone
:hitting8: and stop being nasty to jambuttys grandson. :mad:

Wish I had a green house like that, crime that its full of tools.
I've only got the two 6*6 roofs and a 4 7metre lawn borders, I do try to do them,but watering them's a struggle. I'm going to try to fit automatic sprinklers this year.

The spider plants are taking over one border I didn't think spider plants were hardy but they come back every year bigger than before.
My cordyline is the same, and is now pot bound and several feet tall, I plan to replace that this year
Going to try to get my spot lights done too, although if I buy a new one it won't be big enough to light up. The back garden roof is the nicest, I've got a little water feature on there, the water echos through the landing when the windows open in summer. This ones all lit at night, one shines on the water and throws rippling reflections on the wall. Councill don't like it though, Miseries keep writing to me accusing of breaking the windows when I climb out.
Ahh thoughts of summer days of planting out, then reaping the rewards drinkin a nice cold beer. Lets hope we have a nice summer this year.

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My very limited gardening experience, glasgow guy, has taught me that bulb flowers are never at their best in the first year of planting. With snowdrops being planted close to the surface they were prone to attack from marauding creatures like a three legged squirrel, field mice and cats. It will look better next year.

What is laughingly described as soil in my back garden could well be the reason why the hollyhocks died off. Although each plant was enclosed in its own biodegradable pot filled with proper compost so they did get a good start.

I think that you have done a good job with what is after all a back yard.

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wasnt anything to do with me before you say or even think it

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That greenhouse is the wifes. mine is in another part of the garden and is 15 ft long. Usually grow tomatoes and the like, also start my other crops off in there, when it gets a bit warmer.
Retlaw.

Wish I had a green house like that, crime that its full of tools.
I've only got the two 6*6 roofs and a 4 7metre lawn borders, I do try to do them,but watering them's a struggle. I'm going to try to fit automatic sprinklers this year.

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still a waste of a greenhouse..

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I’m far too long in the tooth for puerile criticism to cause me any concern. There are people on here who respond to a post, not for its content, but who wrote it and in general I treat them with the contempt that they deserve. Although I have been known to respond in kind when my better nature deserts me.

As you can see from the photo below my back garden is raised above the building floor level and as near as I can gather half the depth is a mixture of rubble and what laughingly passes for soil. The top half isn’t too bad though although it was ‘root bound’ with grass roots after lying fallow for at least 6 years that I know of.

I’m looking for a controlled wilderness instead of a lawn because it would need mowing, so the whole garden is a flowerbed as I have already described.

Come March some time, whatever grasses are showing will be nuked with Weedol, and a week or so later my personal slave will spread a few hundred litres of general compost around so that the seeds will have a good start. After that it is up to nature to do its stuff, although I will help out with anti-slug stuff and a general fertiliser.

By Veterans Day on the 27th June 2008 the poppies should be in bloom so my personal Remembrance Garden will become a symbol for those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live in a free world. Not just the armed forces but also the hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The flowers in the centre will have died back by then and they will represent the fallen.
The red poppies will be symbolic of remembering the fallen of the European war and the yellow poppies for the Far East war.
The wild meadow flowers will be symbolic of the aftermath as life sprung from the ruins of war.
The cultivated flowers will represent progress since then.

It would be a nice gesture if other people set aside a small patch to grow the red poppy. Just a yard square would be enough.

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The greenhouse is not wasted, she keeps one area free of tools and such
for her more exotic plants which won't suvirve a British winter.
Retlaw.

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Nice to see another side of you Jambutty :D


I don't have the luxury of a garden at University, however I have just got some Lithops aka 'living stones'. They're small right now but by May they should have grown a new shell I believe.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1203861914

I've also got some carnivore plants on the way! Various types, but the most obvious being venus fly trap. :D

http://www.littleshopofhorrors.co.uk...roductid=17167

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Living stones? Never heard of them but I know a man who has. They used to call him Jeeves and he came up with http://seedrack.com/06.html

“Living stone plants (Lithops species) are native to South Africa, where they grow among rocks or soil the same color as their two succulent leaves. Lithops are succulents (meaning they store water in their fleshy leaves) but are not related to cacti. Living stones are small plants, often only 1/2" to 1" in diameter. From Fall to Spring, the plants need NO WATER at all. And very little water is needed in the Summer. Too much water can kill the plants. Yellow or white flowers appear towards the end of the growing season. Generally grown as houseplants. The tiny seeds usually germinate in just 3 to 14 days.”

At $3.84 for a packet of 100 seeds it seems like good value.

I notice that you appear to be growing candles. Very exotic!

Donkeys years ago I had what I knew as the “Humble Tumble Plant”. If you touched a leaf near the top it would fold and sag and in doing so would touch another leaf which in turn it would ……. much to the amusement of the kids.

After a few hours it would recover ready to tumble again.

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Well I am sure I have posted about it before, but my garden is still a mess! a mate brought his mini digger last august, and we cleared the front down to 12 inches, it has rained since then every week, (last august), the first rain, immediately after digging, was for about 5 weeks, I am going to have a block paved driveway to the front and side eventually, in the meantime I will put up with the paddling pool, or mud (dependent on last rainfall), then I can start the back garden. I too think Aleks was a bit harsh, mostly because it was jambutty's grandson who did the hard work, we know your love for jb Aleks, but you shouldn't take it out on kids, that's just not nice.

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Just an observation, JB. If there's going to be no lawn it might be an idea to put a couple of pathways across (paving stones, gravel or even bark chippings) so you can get to different parts without treading on plants. You may want to pull out things like thistles and nettles which may come up with the other stuff. On the other hand - if you don't mind them - thistles get lovely purple flowers and nettles attract butterflies (don't ask me which ones).

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jambutty , you are talking about the sensitive plant ( mimosa ) It folds and drops its leaves to stop small animals from eating it , the animals and insects simply fall off it .

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These are some of the wifes clutter on the window sill.

Retlaw.
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Haha I hadn't noticed the labels look like candles. :D

I want one of the tumbler plants, but I think I'll have to wait until I get a house next year. The uni accommodation doesn't really have enough room near light to cope with more plants. :(

The little water thing is rather good, means I won't kill it if I forget to water it ;) Apparently they're incredibly good at absorbing water, because of the hot African climate. This must be why they die if you water them too much!

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just like to ask, who was the one who gave me bad karma?????:eek:
what have i done to offend anyone?
looks like someone on here as read it WRONG!!!
can someone please explain why i should get a red box??.....maybe the person who gave it to me???.................

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You refuse to respond to a post, not for its content, but who wrote it :rolleyes:

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I think it is about time all this Jam Butty bashing stopped.
He may well have peculiar opinions on some things but
oldies are entitled to be eccentric and stubborn sometimes :D

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Lol i'd never bash him for his opinions even if they are wrong.
I'm probably more eccentric and stubborn than him. I grow plants on a 6*6 roof 20ft up in the air that I have to climb out of a window to get to.

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explains the username then!! :D

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totally agree , but talking down to other thread users as if they are imbeciles and at other times being downright nasty doesnt cut it with me . Old age is no excuse for bad manners , the saying that "me me me" generation are the young is sometimes a bit wide of the mark :mad:

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Once all or most of the grass has been nuked anything that comes up will be allowed to grow and flourish.

Thanks for the reminder but I had pondered the problem of getting around my garden without crushing seedlings. I considered learning the art of levitation so that I could float around. Nah! That’s just silly! The other alternative would be to install a Breecher’s Buoy from corner to corner but that wouldn’t be very practical. The thought struck me that maybe I could train “Stumpy” the squirrel to do the odd foray around tidying up. I would pay it handsomely.

Sadly “Stumpy” is no more. The squirrel that I saw this morning had two fully formed front legs (or should that be paws?) and it seemed to be a bit larger than “Stumpy”. Was it Mr or Mrs “Stumpy” or maybe son or daughter of “Stumpy”? Or was it an interloper? Who knows? But it had a dig around for a while, found something and scampered off up the fence, launched itself into space, landed nimbly on the trunk of a nearby tree and disappeared in the branches above, taking its spoils with it.

Note to self – must get some peanuts in their shells so that one day I can take a picture of it. Thinks! Stretch rope across the garden and dangle the peanuts from it, sit back and wait for the squirrel to display its foraging talents.

But back to pathways. I think that I will let nature decide where I will be able to walk. There are bound to be bare patches that could be turned into a path. Otherwise the plan was to allow a path to develop either side of the “V”.

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Anonymous negative Karma. Some people are like children in a school playground.

They don’t have the moral fibre to put their name to a comment. It’s all very sad.

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Wrong Madhatter! When I don’t respond to a post it is because there is no point in flogging a dead horse. Labouring a point doesn’t make it more acceptable. It isn’t essential for me to have the last word and I don’t expect a reply to any of my posts nor am I miffed if someone doesn’t respond, like some people.

However when I do respond to a post I reserve the right to respond in kind.

Not that this has anything to do with gardens.

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Some on here would argue that lol

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Attacking individuals for the sake of it is not productive in the slightest. If you disagree in other threads, keep it there.

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how does my garden grow?


with silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row :D

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my garden grows very nice in the summer but crap in the winter:o

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My garden is under about three feet of snow ... I'll get back to you on the gardening thing when my igloo melts.

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Mmmm! I wonder who though? lol ;)

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Yup, about time over here to start ordering vegtable seeds and planting my cole crops indoors. My vegtable garden (~40 feet by 70 feet) needs to be tilled. Just have to fix a broken belt on it and I'll be ready to go.

Thankfully our lawn and fruit trees remain dormant. Just finished the last of the pruning and spreading compost over the lot of 'em. My garlic beds look nice and the asparagus is starting to come through.

Brian

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Oh and jambutty, that's ashame about your garden. I know all the work that went into it. Hopefully next year will produce a stronger bloom eh?

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well just noticed today that my tulips have started to appear:D

nice black and red ones, (thats the colour they will be when they flower):D:D

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Now my garden is under four feet of snow:( Not too much growing in the -20 temps we are having right now ... but spring is just around the corner; the local hardware stores are selling the equipment you need for making maple syrup:D And with all the snow cover there will be no shortage of moisture for the lawns and gardens:alright:

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The snowdrops and crocuses in my front garden are almost finished. Daffodils are opening and tulips are showing buds. The dwarf lilac tree is coming into leaf as are the rose bushes.

In the back garden the camellia has dozens of buds that look like they'll be open soon and all the other shrubs are budding. The Forsythia will soon be covered in yellow flowers and even the rhubarb is showing a tiny bit of crown (must put a bucket over it).

Unfortunately - the lawn needs mowing. :mad:

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Someone other than that obnoxious toe rag Aleks might just be interested to see how my garden is progressing. So here’s a picture of my bluebell corner.

Most of the English bluebells have come up and flowered. The first year after planting is never too good but next year it should look better. Once they have finished flowering and died back a bit I will thin them out and increase the area.

The foxgloves are looking more like Triffids day by day and one of the hollyhocks has survived and has started to grow up.

My sowing of the red poppy seeds wasn’t quite as distributive as I thought but nonetheless they too are showing signs of productive life even if they will be in myriads of clumps of them.

Unfortunately and in spite of nuking every blade of grass that came up, more has sprouted so I’m going to have to trim it back to ground level to give the seedlings a chance. That’s going to be tricky.

Overall it has been a worthwhile exercise and there are good signs that come the summer I will have achieved my objective, or at least most of it.

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Hope your garden flourishes, you have put a lot of hard work in.

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Ive missed your charm JB. And in fact i think your garden is looking amazin.

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Well done, the bluebells look great. Do they have a good scent? Unfortunately the Spanish ones don't. I am still always digging them out but I'll never entirely get rid of them so I'm compromising and encouraging the white ones and the pink ones which are very attractive. I do love English bluebells though.

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Thanks but it was my grandson who did all the hard work.

I just gave him general directions on what to do but not how to do it.

My major contribution was ensuring the regular supply of brews when and as needed.

Oh! Yes! I scattered the anti-slug pellets and once there was signs of life the plant food pellets.

Now if only I can get that pesky squirrel to sit still for a few seconds and smile at the camera but he’s so edgy and quick that so far I have loads of shots of where he has been. Although I do have a blurry tail just on the edge as he scarpered along the back fence. But I’ll get a decent snap one of these days.

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A joint effort we will call it but hope it all goes as you planned it

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this was my planting last week, its come on a lot since then though

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The foxgloves, tall and straight and now in full bloom, are attracting bees by the dozen. In fact it can get so busy at times that I am seriously considering setting up a “Traffic Control Tower” to make sure that they don’t crash into each other.:rolleyes:

Maybe I could charge them landing rights?:rolleyes:

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An update on my garden.

The Foxgloves are now coming to the end of their display yet still the bees swoop down in squadrons, although I believe that the correct collective noun for bees is “grist”. A squadron of bees. A grist of bees. Squadron sounds much better.

The last few weeks have been rather wet and not so warm but none-the-less the poppy seeds germinated and produced a proliferation of foliage and hundreds of buds interspersed with meadow flowers. The last few warmer days encouraged the buds to open and show bright red flowers. Not too many for now but there are squillions of buds ready to colour my garden red.

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Could be a lot worse - you could have Arthur (bleedin) Askey dancing round the gaff:dancedog:

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It looks great.:)

Are you going to leave it at the end of the summer, or get someone to scythe it down, like they do in wildflower meadows?

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It looks like you have a real wildlife haven there, Jambutty. Are you getting many butterflies? I ask because I have hardly seen any this year, not even now the buddleia (butterfly bush) has come into flower.

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we have loads of butterflies up here, my cat likes them.

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I usually get peacock butterflies, red admirals and loads of tortoiseshells in my garden but not this year. It's a bit worrying.

Our cat likes the odd butterfly/moth. If she catches one (rarely as she's old and can't be ar$ed to jump after things that fly) she walks round with the wings sticking out of her mouth like a bow tie. :D

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That’s what I’ve tried to do – make a haven for wild life. Fortunately I have a Zulu knopkerry, which is supposed to keep marauding elephants away and prevent them from trampling the foliage. It must work because I have never seen an elephant cross my garden.

With the wet weather there haven’t been many butterflies around but on dry, warm days the rabble of butterflies or if you like the swarm of butterflies all come rolling in. Well just a handful actually. I don’t know the names of any except the cabbage white and the red admiral. I did see two brownish coloured ones in what I assumed was a courting ritual as they flew around each other in a sort of aerial chase.

I’ve had loads of what look like very small hornets, barely half an inch long.

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[quote=jambutty;610740]. Fortunately I have a Zulu knopkerry, which is supposed to keep marauding elephants away and prevent them from trampling the foliage. It must work because I have never seen an elephant cross my garden.

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Ah - I think our cat's doing a very good job there. Not an elephant in sight in Lymm either. ;)

Just a thought but aren't small hornets just - wasps? :confused:

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No, I don’t think so. Wasps and hornets are two different species – I think.

Where is David Bellamy when you need him, or that Kate what’s her name or Bill Oddie?

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Yee! Ha!

I’ve got a pure white one with more to come off that particular plant.

I’ve staked it and marked it so that when it goes to seed I can harvest them for next year.